Author: Shannon

I am wife to Stewart, mama of six, homeschooler, messy cook, and avid fermenter. This is where I tell our story... of building a sustainable off-grid homestead... of raising this growing family of ours... of the beauty and the hard and the joy in all of it.

Grain-Free Tabouli

A couple of weeks ago I threw together this salad for the local chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation’s potluck. I had seen something similar to this in a low-carb cookbook a while back, so when I had a big bunch of parsley and bell peppers from our CSA and a kitchen windowsill full…

The Importance of Probiotics

For the past few years we have heard a lot about probiotics from marketers of all sorts of food-like products. From bread to sugar-laden yogurts, companies are trying to cram these beneficial bacteria into the products most americans consume, convincing us that it’s the real deal. Well, it’s not. Probiotics are not things that naturally…